"Things have been pretty crazy since the tournament began." Brandon thought as he walked with the other students, the ship was getting closer which meant that he and the others where one step closer to defeating the Orichalcos duelists and putting this nightmare behind them. "Okay, the last two duels have been between my friends, not to mention my girlfriend, and someone with a grudge against them, Kimberly's grudge is obvious but what about me?" Brandon thought as he looked towards the ship.
"Can I have a penny for your thoughts?" Theresa asked him catching Brandon's attention; he smiled before turning to her.
"I'm just thinking about the last three duels." Brandon shrugged as they neared the ship. "Everyone who's dueled so far has gone up against someone with a grudge against them; in fact the only ones who haven't dueled are I, Kimberly and Lance."
"And you're wondering who you'll be up against?" Theresa asked and her boyfriend nodded. "Why would anyone hold a grudge against you? You're the sweetest guy I know."
"I used to ask myself the same question about you before your duel against Drew." Brandon pointed out and Theresa blushed.
"Err, yeah good point." Theresa admitted as she rubbed the back of her head nervously, before Brandon could say anything else the party stopped in their tracks.
"Let me guess, our next opponent has arrived?" Brandon asked and almost as an answer to Brandon's question a familiar voice, to him anyway, rang out.
"Your ever the perceptive one, eh Brandon?" The figure said as he stepped forward, he was significantly older than the other duelists they had faced so far, easily in his early 50s, with grey balding hair and blue eyes; he was wearing a grey business suit and had an Orichalcos duel disk on his arm.
"Lector Goldsmith, I knew you were power hungry but I never thought you'd go this far." Brandon said as he folded his arms, Lector chuckled.
"My boy, when it comes to power there's no such thing as going to far." Lector said with a confident smirk. "Besides after everything I've done for your father over the years I earned my little bonus." Lector added and Brandon frowned.
"Bonus, is that what they're calling embezzlement these days?" Brandon asked and Lector scowled. "Face it Lector, my father caught you stealing millions from his company and when your attempt at blackmail failed you tried to kill him." Brandon added and Lector smirked.
"Brandon, you know as well as I do that the attempted murder charge was dismissed after my lawyer had the gun suppressed." Lector said cockily and Brandon growled. "As the company's lawyer I knew enough about law to cover my tracks."
"But you didn't know enough about accounting to cover your tracks in that department, which ended up being your downfall." Brandon said before his eyes lowered towards Lector's duel disk. "But that just leaves three questions unanswered, how did you end up with these maniacs, since when could you duel and most importantly if you were in the tournament why didn't we encounter you?"
"In no particular order, dueling has always been a hobby of mine Brandon but after my release from white collar prison I started taking it seriously." Lector said before frowning. "As for the tournament, I lost to some brat from North Academy who was using Dragunity monsters; you see my deck revolves around milling my own deck for card effects and I was stupid enough to not ensure that the Orichalcos was in my hand."
"He dueled a North Academy student who uses Dragunity monsters huh? It sounds like he dueled Zach either before or after his duel with Chloe." Brandon thought as he activated his duel disk.
"Milling his own deck for card effects? That can only mean one thing." Jeff thought as Lector activated his duel disk. "Careful Brandon, if he's using the archetype I think he's using then you're in trouble." Jeff called out to him.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful." Brandon called out to him before turning to Lector. "You never answered my third question."
"I suppose I didn't." Lector realized before smirking evilly. "I have always been a business man at heart Brandon and I know a good deal when I hear it and my current employer offered me an excellent deal, I get revenge on my former employer by taking out his spoilt brat of a son." Lector added and Brandon frowned as both duelists drew their opening hands.
"I knew it; you're just as greedy as ever." Brandon frowned as he looked over his opening hand. "Who's going first?"
"I am." Lector said as he drew his first card. "Excellent, I shall begin this transaction by activating a Spell Card called Solar Recharge, in order to activate this Spell Card I must discard one monster which belongs to the Lightsworm Archetype and send the top two cards from my deck to the graveyard, in return for this I can draw two cards." Lector played the card and discarded a monster, once that was done he drew twice and picked up the top two cards in his deck before sending them to the graveyard, before Brandon could say anything else Lector retrieved a card from his graveyard. "Ah excellent, one of the cards I sent from my deck to my graveyard is a monster known as Wulf, Lightsworn Beast."
"Your point is?" Brandon asked impatiently as Lector retrieved the monster from his graveyard.
"My point is Wulf is a monster that can only be summoned if and only if it is sent from my deck to the graveyard so come forth my beast!" Lector played the card and a humanoid white tiger appeared on the field, it was dressed rather strangely as it was clad in a white kilt with a gold belt around it's waist, a gold necklace and had various tattoos, to top it off the beast had razor sharp claws and was wielding an axe (4/2100/300). "Now, as for my normal summon, I summon Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner in attack mode!" Lector played the card and a young woman with short green hair appeared on the field, she was wearing a white toga and had a pink glow around her hands (3/1000/1000). "Lumina has a very useful special ability, once per turn I can discard one card from my hand to Special Summon one Level 4 or lower Lightsworm monster from my graveyard, I believe another Lightsworm Beast will do the job nicely." Lector retrieved the card from his graveyard after discarding the card and played it, just like he said a second copy of Wulf appeared on the field ready for battle.
"Let me guess, that was the card you discarded for Solar Recharge?" Brandon asked and Lector nodded.
"Off course, this transaction would not be complete without this next card." Lector said as he held up a card in his hand, the Field Spell slot in his duel disk opened up and Brandon frowned knowing what was coming up. "I activate the Seal of the Orichalcos!" Lector announced as he grinned evilly and Brandon braced himself as the infamous field spell enveloped both duelists; the seal's symbol appeared on Lector's forehead as well as the foreheads of his three monsters increasing their attack power by 500. "I set a card facedown and that shall end my turn for now, however as a consequence of having Lumina on my side of the field I must send the top three cards in my deck to the graveyard." Lector announced and once he sent the three cards to the graveyard Brandon drew his card.
"If all his cards rely on destroying his own deck then Brandon will have this match in the bag." Lance said with a grin as Brandon looked over his hand. "He won't even have to do much, that old guy will deck himself out before long."
"I don't think so Lance." Jeff commented with a frown. "True decking out is always a problem with Lightsworn decks but a smart user of this archetype usually has one of two things, the maximum number of cards he/she is allowed to have in their deck or the Trap Card Blasting the Ruins."
"I activate Allure of Darkness; in exchange for removing one Dark Type monster in my hand from play this Spell Card will allow me to draw two cards." Brandon played the card and after he pocketed a monster he drew twice. "I can't beat his beasts but I can take that summoner out of commission." Brandon thought as he played the two cards he just drew. "I set a card facedown and I summon Dark Crusader in attack mode!" Brandon played the card and the skeleton knight appeared on the field (4/1600/200). "I now activate my Crusader's effect, in exchange for discarding another Dark Type monster from my hand he gains another 400 attack points." Brandon announced as he discarded the card and Dark Crusader's attack increased to 2000.
"Drat, I thought he was still using the Dark Scorpions." Lector thought with a frown as his eyes narrowed. "I knew I should've paid close attention to the Semi-Finals once I learned that Brandon was one of the competing duelists." Lector thought before grinning. "So, are you going to attack or not?"
"Funny you should ask, Dark Crusader I command you to attack Lumina!" Brandon commanded and the skeleton charged towards the monster…
"I counter your attack with my Trap Card Lightsworn Barrier!" Lector activated the trap and Lumina started casting a spell, before Brandon knew it Dark Crusader's charge was blocked by an invisible barrier. "This trap can only be activated if two conditions are met; a face up Lightsworm monster is targeted for an attack and if I send the top two cards from my deck to the graveyard, however in exchange this trap lets me negate the attack." Lector said as Dark Crusader returned to Brandon's side of the field and Lector sent two more cards from his deck to the graveyard. "Your deck may not be the one I remember from back when I worked for your father Brandon." Lector said as he sent the three cards, his trap and the two cards from his deck, to the graveyard. "But you are still as predictable as ever."
"Anyone ever tell you that you talk too much?" Brandon asked as he looked over the rest of his hand. "That ends my turn." Brandon announced and Lector drew a card.
"Very well, I start my turn by activating the Spell Card Charge of the Light Brigade." Lector played the spell and picked up three cards off of the top of his deck. "By sending these three cards to the graveyard this Spell allows me to add one Level 4 or lower Lightsworn monster from my deck to my hand." Lector sent the three cards to the graveyard and picked up his deck which Brandon could see was larger than decks usually where.
"He probably made it the maximum size to get around the decking out problem that people who use Lightsworms face," Brandon thought as Lector selected a card and added it to his hand, Lector sent the Spell to the graveyard and played the newly retrieved monster.
"I now summon the monster I retrieved from my deck, Garoth, Lightsworn Warrior!" Lector played the card and a male warrior with spiked up blue hair; he was muscular and was wearing stomach exposing white and gold armor, he drew a spear as he prepared for battle (4/1850/1300) and his attack power increased to 2350 thanks to the seal. "Garoth has a very powerful ability but it won't come into play until the end of my turn, in the meantime Wulf I command you to attack Dark Crusader, the rest of you attack his life-points directly!" Lector commanded and the four monsters charged towards Brandon. Dark Crusader's hologram shattered as the first Wulf cut him in half with his claws whilst the others struck him with their weapons or in Lumina's case her Spell.
L: 8000
B: 950
Brandon gritted his teeth in pain as he forced himself to his feet, he wasn't bleeding as far as he could tell but he was definitely in pain, Lector laughed when he saw this. "If I had known that defeating you would be this easy I would've challenged you during the tournament, but alas I chose to end my turn and thus activate the side effect of Lumina." Lector said as he picked up four cards and looked at them.
"What are you doing? You can't look at cards your milling." Brandon protested and Lector frowned.
"In order to use Garoth's effect I must, whenever I send cards from my deck to the graveyard via the effect of a Lightsworm monster other than Garoth I can send an additional two cards to the graveyard and draw a card for each Lightsworm monster that's sent to the graveyard this way." Lector explained with a grin. "As it happens both of the cards I'm about to send to the graveyard with Lumina's effect are Lightsworm monsters." Lector added before sending the four cards to the graveyard and drawing twice, Brandon grimaced before drawing his card.
"I summon Sangan in attack mode!" Brandon played the card and the familiar three eyed fiend appeared on the field (3/1000/600). "Now I activate my facedown card Dark Spirit Art – Greed, all I need to do is sacrifice Sangan and in return I can draw two cards." Brandon announced as Sangan was consumed by a dark light, Brandon quickly drew two additional cards before picking up his deck.
"Sangan's effect I assume?" Lector asked, Brandon didn't answer as he was busy searching through his deck for the monster in question, once he found it he added it to his hand and sent Dark Spirit Art – Greed to the graveyard.
"I end my turn at that." Brandon announced and Lector chuckled as he drew his card.
"Then it's come to an end, Lumina I give you the honor of finishing him off!" Lector announced and the sorceress started casting her spell again…
"You won't get rid of me that easily Lector!" Brandon shouted as he played the card he retrieved with Sangan and Battle Fader (1/0/0) appeared on the field, Lumina reluctantly stopped casting her spell and Lector frowned.
"So you brought yourself a little time, not that it'll help you much." Lector scoffed as he picked up four cards from his deck. "No monsters this time so I simply send these cards to the graveyard and end my turn." Lector announced as he sent the cards to the graveyard and Brandon drew his card without hesitation.
"Actually Battle Fader here has helped me a lot and I'm about to show you why!" Brandon said as he picked up Battle Fader and pocketed it due to its effect. "I sacrifice Battle Fader to summon Caius, The Shadow Monarch!" Battle Fader vanished from the field and in its place stood Caius who was ready for battle (6/2400/1000). "And when my monarch is successfully tribute summoned I can remove one monster on your side of the field from play." Brandon announced as he went to point to one of the Wulfs but hesitated. "His beasts may be stronger than my Monarch but with Garoth on the field he has a one in two chance of drawing new cards at the end of his turn, better not risk it," Brandon thought before pointing to Garoth, the warrior screamed as it was consumed by dark light before vanishing. "If Garoth was a Dark Type monster you'd take a thousand points of damage, but I know for a fact that all Lightsworms are Light Types but it's not like that matters, Caius unleash your mighty power upon Lumina now!" Brandon commanded and the fiend launched a ball of dark energy at the sorceress, she screamed before being consumed by it.
L: 7100
B: 950
"A valiant effort but it'll be all for naught once my turn begins." Lector scoffed as he pocketed Garoth and sent Lumina to the graveyard. "Caius is strong but my beasts are far stronger, all it will take is one direct attack by either of my beasts and you'll be finished." Lector added and Brandon frowned before picking up the cards he drew with Dark Spirit Art - Greed the previous turn.
"I set these two cards facedown and end my turn at that." Brandon set the two cards and Lector drew his card.
"I may not have the manpower that I once had." Lector said as he added his drawn card to his hand. "But my two beasts are more than enough to finish the job, Wulf attack….." Lector started but his order was cut off by a very loud roar, the two beasts cowered in fear and Lector turned to Brandon in time to see that he had activated one of his traps. "I see; one of your facedown cards was Threatening Roar."
"That's right, and now that I've activated it neither of your overgrown kittens can attack this turn." Brandon confirmed as he sent his trap to the graveyard, Lector frowned before setting his set card and motioning for Brandon to take his turn. "Okay, I have the three Dark Type Monsters I need to summon Dark Armed Dragon; it's just a question of drawing it." Brandon thought as he drew his card. "Damn, not the card I needed but it'll help….."
"I activate my trap card Light Spiral!" Lector activated the trap and too Brandon's surprise two beams of light shot up from the ground, one was going straight whilst the other was going around it. "This continuous Trap Card is quite lethal, you see every time I mill my deck via the effect of a Lightsworn monster from now on the top card in your deck will be removed from play."
"Am I seriously supposed to believe that thing's legal?" Brandon protested as he folded his arms, Lector smirked as he heard that.
"Like it or not young man this Trap Card is perfectly legal." Lector said and Brandon growled.
"Fine, I'll settle for activating the Spell Card I just drew." Brandon said as he played the card. "Go Nightmare's Steel Cage!" Brandon announced and to Lector's shock a steel cage completely surrounded his two beasts. "For the next two turns that cage will prevent either of us from attacking."
"Stalling for time are we? Fine by me, if I can't deplete your life points I'll deplete your deck instead!" Lector growled and Brandon smirked.
"Like you depleted money from my father's company?" Brandon taunted him and Lector growled. "I end my turn at that." Brandon announced and Lector drew his card.
"Then let the milling of BOTH our decks begin!" Lector said as he slapped his drawn card onto the duel disk. "I summon Shire, Lightsworn Spirit in attack mode!" Lector played the card and a young blonde girl in a white dress appeared on the field carrying a small staff (3/400/1400) and her attack increased to 900 thanks to the seal.
"Why would you summon something that weak?" Brandon asked and Lector grinned, he soon saw why however as Shire's attack points skyrocketed to 3000. "That thing has an effect doesn't it?" Brandon asked and Lector nodded.
"Indeed, Shire gains 300 attack points for each Lightsworn with a different name in my graveyard." Lector explained with an evil grin. "I counted and there are seven such monsters in my graveyard giving her an extra 2100 attack points."
"Pity you can't attack." Brandon pointed out and Lector frowned.
"Indeed, and that is why I'm ending my turn." Lector said before picking up two cards. "Off course Shire comes with the price that most Lightsworn monsters require so I send these two cards to my graveyard, fortunately for you neither of them are monsters." Lector said as he sent the two cards to the graveyard and a beam of light emitted from Light Spiral striking the top card on Brandon's deck, he looked at the card and blinked.
"Sword of Dark Rites, I got this prior to Battle City but I never got a chance to use it, shame I could've used it to take out one of his beasts." Brandon thought before pocketing the card and drawing the next card. "Regardless though those two beasts, whilst very powerful, are no longer the main threat on his side of the field, I need to get rid of that Spirit and fast." Brandon thought before looking at the card he had drawn. "Damn, still no sign of Dark Armed Dragon." Brandon thought before setting the card facedown. "I set this facedown and end my turn." Brandon announced and Lector drew his card.
"Ah perfect, this is a card that I added especially for you Brandon." Lector said as he played a card. "I activate Prohibition."
"Oh crap, that lets you prevent me from using a card's effect!" Brandon realized as the Spell Card flipped up,
"Yes and the card name I'm declaring is Dark Armed Dragon." Lector announced and Brandon's eyes narrowed. "Now as long as this Spell Card is in play you are forbidden to use that monster."
"I have other strong cards in my deck, hell you're staring at one right now!" Brandon pointed out as he pointed to Caius.
"Yes but Dark Armed Dragon was the only hope you had of crushing my defenses." Lector pointed out before picking up two cards. "I pass which means that your spell card has expired, I can now send two different Lightsworn monsters to my graveyard AND Light Pillar's effect kicks in." Lector announced and as the cage faded away he sent his monsters to the graveyard and once Shire's attack increased to 3600 a beam of light struck the top card on Brandon's deck, he picked it up and looked at it.
"Thanks Lector that would've been a dead draw." Brandon said and Lector blinked in confusion, Brandon turned the card around and Lector's eyes widened.
"Dark Armed Dragon, if I hadn't drawn Prohibition when I did…" Lector said before shaking his head. "It doesn't matter; Light Pillar would have still forced you to remove that monster from play!" Lector pointed out and Brandon answered by making his draw once he sent his spell to the graveyard and pocketed Dark Armed Dragon.
"Not much I can do so I set a monster in defense, switch Caius to defense mode and set a card facedown." Brandon made the moves and the two facedown cards appeared on the field just before Caius crouched down. "That ends my turn." Brandon announced and Lector drew his card. "I activate Thunder of Ruler."
"Stalling again? You'll run out of ways to stall for time eventually." Lector said dismissively as he looked at the card in his hand. "I activate another Solar Recharge." Lector played the card and discarded a card from his hand, once he did he drew twice and sent another two cards from his deck to the graveyard, neither of the cards where monsters however so Shire didn't benefit from them being in the graveyard, however Lector was more interested in one of his drawn cards. "This will make the duel very interesting from now on."
"What do you mean?" Brandon asked and Lector grinned.
"The card I just drew is another Continuous Spell Card and a rather situational one at that." Lector said as he played the card. "I activate Convulsion of Nature!" Lector announced and before anyone could say anything a fierce storm washed over the field, however with the Seal in play the storm became very real.
"What have you done?" Brandon demanded as he shielded himself. "Don't you realize that you're threatening people's lives with this card?"
"Off course I do." Lector said as he shielded himself, he was clearly surprised by the turn of events but at the same time didn't seem to care one bit. "Certainly makes things more interesting wouldn't you say?" Lector asked and Brandon gave him a look of disgust before he turned to the others quickly.
"Get to shelter!" Brandon shouted at them and the others didn't hesitate to do so.
"You heard the man, let's go!" Jeff said before leading the others away, Brandon turned to Lector and growled.
*meanwhile on the ship*
"I warned that fool not to use that card." The leader grumbled as he and Michael struggled to keep their balance, the various objects around the office fell from their shelves including the leader's wine bottles and the glass that he was drinking from.
"I don't understand, cards like Heavy Storm and Mystical Space Typhoon have been played in the seal but no effects this disastrous have occurred." Michael said as he leaned on a filing cabinet for support. "I thought you tested the various effects certain cards would have on the seal?"
"Yes, I rigorously tested them." The leader confirm with a nod. "Obviously I couldn't test cards such as the Egyptian God Cards and the Sacred Beasts but most of the cards I tested had the standard effect off the battle damage becoming real but certain cards like Convulsion of Nature and Meteor Flare had disastrous effects, I wouldn't worry however, the storm originally caused by this card only lasted for a minute." The leader said and just as he did the storm subsided, the Leader put a hand to his earpiece and contacted maintenance. "I need a damage report now!"
"Well we aren't sinking, that's a good thing." The man on the other end answered. "No serious damage appears to have been caused by the storm, though I'll bet the local news will report on this."
"No doubt, and have someone go into the city and buy me as many wine bottles as he can afford, I will reimburse him tenfold!" The leader said before hanging up. "Michael, I want Lector's soul destroyed regardless off the outcome."
"Off course sir, it shall be done." Michael said before leaving the office, the leader massaged his temples in annoyance as he turned to the TV screen.
"Those souls had better be worth the trouble I've been through to get them." The leader thought as he watched the duel.
*back at the duel*
"Well, that was unexpected." Lector commented off handedly as he adjusted his tie, Brandon's hair was even messier than usual as a result of the storm but he was otherwise fine as was the other students. "As for the Spell Card's effect it's very simple, every single card in our deck will now be flipped upside down for the remainder of the duel." Lector added and Brandon frowned before turning the remaining cards in his deck upside down, Lector did likewise and ten minutes later the task was complete.
"I don't get it." Chloe said as she scratched her head in confusion. "Why play that card?"
"His card's effects, that's why." Jeff said once he regained his composure. "He will now know in advance if Shire will get additional attack points from her effect and with that combined with Light Pillar he'll now know just how badly his trap card's effect has cost Brandon." Jeff said as he sat down on the pillar.
"Not that it matters, I have another card I've been waiting to play." Lector said as he played the card. "I activate Big Bang Shot and equip it to Shire." Brandon's eyes widened as Lector equipped Shire with the card increasing her attack to 4000. "I can tell by the look on your face that you're familiar with this card so I won't remind of its effect."
"Yeah I am." Brandon confirmed as his eyes narrowed. "But why even bother playing Convulsion of Nature if you're planning on finishing me off?"
"Why not, I've always viewed other people as expendable anyway." Lector shrugged and Brandon's eyes narrowed.
"You're insane." Brandon accused him and Lector chuckled.
"There's a difference between being insane and being a realist Brandon." Lector said plainly with an evil grin. "Oh sure, it's perfectly okay to be optimistic when you're in high school, or in your case Duel Academy, after all you have the rest of your life ahead of you." Lector said before spitting to the side. "It's only once you graduate that you realize that real life isn't what you hoped it would be, I learned long ago that the world is full of cutthroat businessman….like your father."
"That's a lie and you know it." Brandon pointed out and Lector grinned.
"Is it now? Please I worked for the man for years before I was arrested for embezzlement; I've seen his tactics for myself." Lector said as Shire got ready for battle. "For example, did you know that your father was fired from his previous employers for the same reasons he fired me."
"Actually I do, he told me once I was old enough to understand." Brandon said as he folded his arms. "He confessed to embezzlement but since they didn't have enough to convict him they quietly fired him instead, he's learned from his mistakes." Brandon pointed out and Lector growled upon realizing that his attempted mind games had failed.
"That may be true but that's not the only crime he committed." Lector said before turning his attention to Chloe. "Did your father ever tell you that he used to pay for the legal fees of any of his most loyal employees if they ever got into legal trouble?"
"What does that have to do with Chloe?" Brandon demanded once he realized who he was looking at, Lector smirked as he folded his arms.
"He stopped doing that around ten years ago, when word got out that he was paying for the legal fees of an employee accused off, among other things, abusing his wife and seven year old daughter and the murder of his wife." Lector said with a smirk. "In fact, your friend over there looks a lot like his daughter, only grown up and with a duel disk; I believe his name was Robert Graham?" Lector asked and Brandon's eyes widened when it dawned on him.
"My dad paid for Robert's lawyer." Brandon said and he quickly turned to Chloe who was clearly upset by this revelation. "Chloe, if you want we'll talk after the match."
"Yeah, sounds good." Chloe said meekly and Brandon turned his attention back to Lector.
"Your assuming you'll live long enough for that to happen, Shire I command you to finish him off by attacking Caius!" Lector commanded and the fairy pointed her staff at Caius…
"That's what I was hoping for!" Brandon interrupted as he activated his trap. "GO MIRROR FORCE!" Brandon shouted out and Lector's eyes widened as Shire's attack bounced off a force field sending it back to Lector's three monsters, the three monsters screamed in pain before shattering.
"Very well, if you wish to be that stubborn than so will I!" Lector said as he activated another Spell Card. "I activate Emergency Provisions, in exchange for sending Light Spiral and Prohibition to the Graveyard this Spell Card will increase my life-points by 2000!" Lector announced as the two spirals disappeared alongside Prohibition's hologram. "I shall end my turn by setting a monster in defense mode." Lector announced as he set the monster and Brandon drew his card.
L: 9100
B: 950
"You made a big mistake by getting rid of Prohibition Lector." Brandon announced as he held up his drawn card. "It could've saved you from what's coming up next."
"What are you talking about? Dark Armed Dragon is on the Limited List and I've removed your only copy from play!" Lector demanded and Brandon grinned.
"True but it won't remain in my pocket for long." Brandon said as he played his drawn card. "I activate Burial from a Different Dimension, this lets me takes up to three monsters that are removed from play and add them to my graveyard and as you may remember I have three, Battle Fader due to its effect and my two dragons due to Light Spiral's effect." Brandon explained as he moved the three monsters to his graveyard.
"So you have it back, am I supposed to be impressed?" Lector asked with a grin. "We both know that Dark Armed Dragon can't be summoned from the graveyard."
"My next spell card fixes that problem for me." Brandon said as he played the card, Pot of Avarice's hologram flipped up and Lector's eyes widened.
"Pot of Avarice, that spell card lets you return five monsters currently in your graveyard to your deck and draw two cards!" Lector realized as Brandon retrieved Dark Crusader, the monster he discarded for Crusader's effect, Sangan, Battle Fader and most importantly Dark Armed Dragon, returned them to his deck, shuffled it and drew twice. "Impressive move, not only do you have Dark Armed Dragon back but you already have one monster in your graveyard to assist in its summon."
"I'll worry about getting the other cards into my graveyard later, for now you may remember this monster!" Brandon played the card and Dark Crusader returned to the field ready for another shot at Lector. "Unfortunately I don't have any monsters to discard for his effect but I can still attack, Dark Crusader I command you to attack his facedown monster!" Brandon commanded and the knight charged towards the facedown monster, revealed to be Morphing Jar (2/700/600) which Dark Crusader quickly destroyed, Brandon frowned before discarding the remaining cards in his hand and drawing five new ones as did Lector. "Damn, the Spell I drew with Avarice could've helped." Brandon thought before pointing to Caius. "Caius, attack his life-points directly!" Brandon commanded and the fiend launched a ball of dark energy at Lector striking him in the chest.
L: 6700
B: 950
"That ends my turn." Brandon announced and Lector drew his card.
"Two can play at that game Brandon." Lector said as he played a card, the hologram for Pot of Avarice reappeared on the field, this time on Lector's side of the field, Lector retrieved both Wulfs, Garoth, Lumina and Shire from his graveyard and drew two cards from his deck…and he started laughing evilly when he saw one of the cards he had drawn.
"I don't like the sound of that." Chloe gulped as she heard Lector's evil laughter.
"So you shouldn't my dear, I have just drawn my best monster!" Lector said with an evil grin.
"Wait, Shire wasn't your best monster?" Marcus asked clearly confused by this revelation, Lector scoffed as he held up the card in question.
"Off course not, I hold the true power of my deck in my hands." Lector responded as his grin grew wider. "A monster that requires it's user to have four or more Lightsworn monsters with different names in the graveyard before I can summon it and I have more than enough to do just that!" Lector said as he played the card. "Come forth Judgment Dragon!" Lector called out and a looming shadow appeared above the dueling field, the monster that landed on the field was indeed a dragon and a much bigger one than any of Marcus's dragons, it was gold in color and very intimidating to look at (8/3000/2600) and the dragon's attack increased to 3500 thanks to the seal.
"Holy shit, that thing's as strong as Chloe's Silent Magician!" Lance shouted out as his eyes widened, Lector chuckled evilly as he pointed to his dragon.
"You think its strong now? I haven't even activated its effect!" Lector announced as his life-points dropped to 5700. "At the cost of one thousand life-points Judgment Dragon can destroy every other card on the field!" Brandon's eyes widened as the dragon let out a mighty roar before flapping its wings, his three monsters shielded themselves from the gust as did Brandon but whilst Brandon was able to keep his footing as monsters weren't as Caius, Dark Crusader, Convulsion of Nature and his facedown monster was blown away, Brandon quickly sent the three monsters and his trap to the graveyard once the two duelists returned their decks to the proper position and he stared down at the dragon. "The time has come Brandon; Judgment Dragon will now cast his judgment upon you!" Lector declared as the mighty dragon prepared its attack….
"I don't think so!" Brandon interrupted as he played a card, Battle Fader appeared on the field and Judgment Dragon closed its mouth. "Battle Fader here was one of the monsters I retrieved from my graveyard."
"But…..but you said that Dark Crusader was the only monster in your hand!" Lector stammered and Brandon shook his head.
"That was before you forced me to discard my initial hand with Morphing Jar." Brandon pointed out and Lector's eyes widened. "If you hadn't set that monster you could've won the match, but now? I have everything I need to beat you."
"How do you expect to do that? My life-points are far higher than yours!" Lector challenged him and Brandon grinned.
"End your turn and find out." Brandon said plainly and Lector looked at his remaining cards before looking up at Judgment Dragon.
"No use in using Judgment Dragon's effect again, even if he draws Dark Armed Dragon he has too many monsters in his graveyard to summon it!" Lector thought before picking up four cards from the top of his deck. "Like most of my other monsters the effect of Judgment Dragon requires me to mill my own deck at the end of my turn, in this case I must send four cards to the graveyard." Lector explained as he sent the monsters to the graveyard. "Do your worst boy!"
"Challenge accepted!" Brandon said as he drew his card. "And I start by activating the Spell Card called Card of Sanctity!" Brandon played the card and both duelists drew until they had six cards in their hands. "Perfect, first I sacrifice Battle Fader to summon Beast of Talwar!" Brandon played the card and Battle Fader vanished, in its place stood the twin sword wielding fiend (6/2400/2150), Brandon pocketed Battle Fader due to its effect and picked up another card. "Now I activate Dark Eruption, this Spell Card lets me add one Dark Type monster with 1500 or less attack points to my hand!" Brandon played the card and retrieved the monster he set earlier, Don Zaaloog (4/1400/1500), from his graveyard; he added the monster to his hand and grinned. "But that's not the important part, isn't it Lector?"
"You now have enough monsters to bring out Dark Armed Dragon!" Lector realized as his eyes widened, Brandon nodded before playing the card and his strongest monster appeared above the field (7/2800/1000). "Nice try but your dragon isn't good enough and even if you destroy Judgment Dragon with its effect I have enough life-points to survive the round." Lector said before looking at his hand. "And with Shire back in my hand all I'll need to do is destroy that fiend and win!"
"That's where you're wrong!" Brandon said as he held up his last card. "I have one more card I can play and I added it specifically to deal with Light Type users like you, it's called Leeching the Light!" Brandon played the card and Judgment Dragon started glowing.
"What on earth is going on?" Lector demanded as he looked up in confusion at his monster.
"Leeching the Light lets me target one Light Type Monster on your side of the field." Brandon explained with a grin. "With this Spell Card I can add the targeted monster's attack points to every monster on my side of the field!" Brandon added and Lector's eyes widened in horror as Beast of Talwar and Dark Armed Dragon's attack points skyrocketed to 5900 and 6300 respectively. "And now for the icing on the cake, I remove Dark Crusader from play to activate the effect of Dark Armed Dragon!" Lector's eyes widened as the Dragon's mighty tail slammed down on Judgment Dragon crushing him.
"Wait, have mercy!" Lector pleaded as he stared down the two monsters, Brandon frowned as he folded his arms.
"My dad always said you were a coward I never believed him as I thought he wouldn't hire cowards but now I see that fact clear as day!" Brandon said before pointing to his two monsters. "Finish him!" Brandon commanded and the two monsters launched their attacks, Beast of Talwar slashed Lector across the chest with its swords and Dark Armed Dragon slammed its tail into him.
L: 0000
B: 950
"Brandon wins, Fatality!" Marcus shouted from the sidelines only to get odd looks from the other students, Lector was still alive but knew what was going to happen soon.
"You haven't seen the last of me Brandon!" Lector growled as he struggled to get to his feet.
"No, he has." A cold voice rang out from behind Lector and his eyes widened, Lector slowly turned around and saw Michael there. "Your stunt with Convulsion of Nature was not only reckless but endangered the entire operation; the leader has ordered your execution."
"Wait, please let me explain!" Lector pleaded with Michael as the seal closed in around him, the next sound to come out of his mouth was a blood curdling scream as his soul was taken by the Orichalcos; Brandon breathed a sigh of relief as he sat down on the pier.
"Thank god that's over." Brandon breathed a sigh of relief before looking up at Michael, he retrieved Lector's soul card and tore it up without hesitation and went to leave.
"You….." Kimberly growled as she pushed past the other students, Michael turned his attention to her as she glared at him. "You're the one who stole Nathan's soul!"
"So the one that got away did join the tournament." Michael said with a frown under his hood. "I have no time for this…" Michael said as he turned to leave…however he didn't get far before the hologram of Mist Archfiend (6/2400/0) blocked his path and he turned to Kimberly seeing that she had indeed activated her duel disk. "You don't want to challenge me little girl, you saw what I did to your friend."
"That's my step brother you're talking about!" Kimberly growled as she returned Mist Archfiend to her deck. "And your damn right I want to challenge you!" Kimberly added and Michael stood their silently for a few minutes before putting a hand to his earpiece.
"Move Lector's body someplace else, I have…unfinished business to attend too." Michael commanded before turning to Kimberly. "Very well, I'm going to do what I should've done back at Duel Academy." Michael said as he activated his duel disk. "Let us begin."